Cornerstone National Insurance Company Data Breach
NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Cornerstone National Insurance Company, contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.
You may have no relation to Cornerstone National Insurance Co., but if you received a Notice from them it is NOT a scam.
On November 29, 2021, Cornerstone National Insurance Company (“Cornerstone”) “became aware that an unauthorized third party gained access to certain agent user accounts and leveraged this access to run unauthorized searches in the subscription databases.”
The notice does not state when the data breach occurred, only that Cornerstone “became aware” of the data breach on November 29, 2021, and it completed its investigation on July 6, 2022. Once it “became aware” of the data breach, Cornerstone claims it “moved forward with a comprehensive analysis into the extent of the unauthorized activity.” On or about August 4, 2022, Cornerstone began notifying consumers of the data breach by sending “Notice of Data Security Incident” letters.
Cornerstone Insurance is a Missouri corporation that provides home and automobile insurance in Oklahoma, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.
The data of over 232,391 individuals was compromised by this data breach. If you received a data breach letter from Cornerstone, you were impacted by the data breach.
WHAT INFORMATION IS INVOLVED?
According to Cornerstone, the following information was exposed:
- First name
- Last Name
- Driver’s License Number
This information is called your Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). It tells others about you and is considered part of your identity. Businesses are required to secure this information or risk facing statutory penalties, among other legal penalties. Stolen PII can be used by identity thieves to engage in fraudulent activity using your identity.
Cornerstone is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services, but November 4, 2022 is the deadline to enroll in credit monitory services. The best way to protect yourself after a data breach is to sign up for credit and identity protection services as soon as possible. California offers extra protections and legal rights to its residents through the California Consumer Privacy Act.
NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Cornerstone National Insurance Company, contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.